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© DCT Media Eddie Turnbull was one of Aberdeen’s most successful managers. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up He was a man with an indelible link to the Famous Five, but that’s the only connection between Eddie Turnbull and Enid Blyton. While the latter’s characters were invariably involved in cartoon crime capers with lashings of ginger pop, the redoubtable customer who became Aberdeen manager in 1965 was more akin to Ir...

Jim McLean, brilliant but ferocious manager of Dundee United – obituary He steered the club to their first league title, but his reputation as a martinet meant that he was respected rather than liked Jim McLean with the 1982/1983 Premier Division trophy  Credit: Northcliffe Collection Jim McLean, who has died aged 83, managed Dundee United from 1971 until 1993, an era of remarkable success for the hitherto unheralded Scottish club during which the mercurial McLean steered the Tangerines to their first (and only) league title and to the brink of the European Cup Final. McLean’s feats are...

Jim McLean and Tommy Docherty were real giants of the game, says Sir Kenny Dalglish by Sir Kenny Dalglish © Colorsport/Shutterstock Sir Kenny with Tommy Docherty in 1986 at a game marking his 100 Scotland caps The year ended on a sad note for football with the news that both Jim McLean and Tommy Docherty had passed away. Both were giants of the game. Jim was a tactical genius and a Dundee United legend, and I got to know him best when he was Jock Stein’s assistant with Scotland. The fact that Jock valued his opinion, and trusted him as a person, was good enough for me.

© Daily Mail/Shutterstock The Ibrox Disaster left a dark cloud hanging over Glasgow. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The Ibrox Disaster was one of the most grievous events ever to happen in the history of British sport. When all the devastation erupted at the end of the Old Firm derby on January 2 1971, it left 66 people dead, more than 200 others injured, and was the prelude to scores of funerals across the west, central an...

From experiencing the wrath of Sligo Rovers' suporters after a shock loss to Longford Town in the FAI Cup to a couple of years later being in and amongst the Lisbon Lions as a Celtic goalkeeper, the great Tom Lally has very nearly done and seen it all in football. The affable Galwegian, who enjoyed two stints at Rovers, the first including the memorable cup final saga of 1970, is still enthusiastic as ever about the game and has immersed himself in coaching goalkeepers of all ages, currently at Mervue United in his native county, since his playing days concluded. Supporters of Rovers during ...